Home of Economy News

Friday, December 18, 2009

Ice Fishing Ad

Ice Fishing Season is HERE!  Make sure you buy your supplies from Home of Economy.

We do a good business in ice fishing.  The problem with it is it comes all at once.  All of the lakes seem to get strong enough at about the same time and everyone’s buying all of their gear at the same time. 

The one thing people come back for time after time is bait.  We do a great job with bait in our Grand Forks, Devils Lake and Minot stores.  It’s not the most profitable line for us but it does bring in people.  I guess we could get cheap and count out the minnows but that’d take our sales people away from more important thing and we’d probably sell less bait.  I don’t see much profit in doing it that way.

Home of Economy’s Salvation Army Day

Yesterday was the Salvation Army Day at Home of Economy.  The Home of Economy Team rang the bell all day.  (The best was my 10 year old daughter who sang carols as well.)  Maybe I’m biased.

Anyway I just spoke to Major Wilson and we raised $863 for them.  I think last year it was just over $500.  Home of Economy, the corporation, is matching that up to the $500 so it was a good day for the Army.

Next Monday WDAZ is coming here to have their Salvation Army event.  They’ll be doing their evening news broadcast from here even.  That’s pretty exciting. 

We have a group of Team Members that put on an auction for everyone here.  This year they raised over $600.  The Home of Economy Team is matching what WDAZ raises up to that $600. 

The Salvation Army is a great organization that does what needs to be done.  I’m proud of everyone that helped them raise so much needed money.